Jose Marti House

In
this a small house was born José Martí Pérez, Cuban
National Hero and leader of the independence, one of the more outstanding
personalities in the Spanish and Latin American literature in the 19th
century. It is a museum since 1945, and it was declared National Monument
in 1949.

The rooms of Leonor Pérez and Mariano Martí, his parents,
were located upstairs. This rooms exhibits objects related with his childhood,
as a little spoon, a tower, and the baby’s cap used in his baptism
ceremony. The blonde hair braid cut at the age of four years old is his
only physical object preserved.

In one of the rooms is exhibited the iron fetters he was put in the prison
of Havana; the chair he used at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, and
the album of his wedding with Carmen Zallas Bazán.

A second room holds the golden and platinum watch chain, given to the
Maestro by his pupils of the Normal School of Guatemala, a jewel he always
carried with him.

From his vast literary creation it is presented the magazine La Edad
de Oro. This first edition was exhibited in a book form contains the four
magazines published in New York, as well as other pieces as the book of
poems Isamelillo.

From his office in New York, is displayed the secretaire-bureau, the
meeting table, one of the six Imperial chairs that accompanied it, the
ornamental inkstand and the only remaining oleo of José Martí,
made by the artist Herman Norman.

Personal objects José Martí carried at the moment of his
death in May 19th ,1895 are also part of the collection: the leather and
metal spurs, the penknife, that still keeps rest of his blood, and a small
flag made out of fine canes fibers, which belonged to the President of
the Republic in arms, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.
José Martí House offers services as scheduled visits, historical
counsel, courses and a specialized library.